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Kids and energy drinks

Does it bother you when you see kids under the age of say... 12 drinking energy drinks? When I take my kids to the bowling alley for their league every Wednesday and Saturday, I am amazed at how many unattended kids are there walking around with big-ass energy drinks clutched in their hands. Some even drink more than one within the 2 hours we are there.

Do you allow your children to drink them? Do they drink they behind your back? What do you think is the appropriate age to consume them?

Yes it bugs me allot. Its been ALL over the news about kids DYING from drinking them kids being hospitalized from drinking them, hell even adults are overdosing on them. The bars market alcohol drinks made with them. What part of "this is a dangerous "drink" dont parents understand?

i drank at least 2 or 3 everyday, my friends did and still do also, i stopped 5 months before i got pregnant because it started making my heart skip or gave me panic attacks, i still miss drinking them though....energy drinks are like drugs.....you CAN (and people do) get seriously addicted to them, like i was buying 2 or 3 rockstars and monsters everyday for 3 years, i HAD to get at least one or i wouldn't be able to function in class

they are bad for you you can get kidney stones and people do die from them like vbruno said, the reason they die is because the energy drinks make the heart beat so fast that if you even start walking faster(speeding up your heart more) it'll make your heart skip like how mine did but i caught it after 3 years so nothing happened to me thankfully

It bothers me when I see anyone drinking them, but at least an adult is making an (allegedly) informed choice. A kid in one of my classes was telling his friends how he overdosed on them and ended up in the emergency room a few years ago. They nearly killed him, and he still thinks it's a joke at 20 something. No way a 10 or 12 year old is drinking them knowing what they're doing.